The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 17
He looked under the ship’s hull, he peered closely at her keel, and then he leaped quickly back among the rowers.
Who acts: hero · What happens: look, peer, leap back · To what, where: rowers
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 hull | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hull | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 7 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 peered | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 peered | nsubj |
| 10 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 10 peered | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 keel | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 keel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaped | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 leaped | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leaped | nsubj |
| 19 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 leaped | advmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 leaped | advmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 rowers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rowers | det |
| 24 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | hero | under the ship's hull | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under hull=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peer | past | hero | at Ilmarinen's keel; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at keel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap back | past | hero | the rowers | then | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rower=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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